mash up
23 June 2009
Wired Magazine posted this a while ago—I just saw it today via Josh Spear. Sometime’s Girl Talk is a bit overwhelming to listen to if set as background musci, but I think he is an incredible artist. To thread so many elements together so seamlessly is both impressive and, I think, a culminating statement speaking to the appropriation/sample movement in art and music. His music is like speeding through the last 5 decades of pop music in lightspeed. Have a listen below and follow along with the chart above—it’s pretty fun and totally mind-blowing.
